SAGINAW, MI — The other man charged in an August 2011 pole barn fire in Fremont Township is headed to prison.

Saginaw County Circuit Judge Darnell Jackson on Thursday sentenced Hughes N. Rose, 26, to 19 months to 15 years in prison for breaking and entering a building with intent to commit larceny and malicious destruction of personal property worth more than $200 but less than $1,000.

Rose in July pleaded guilty to the charges and in exchange, prosecutors dropped charges of arson of real property and resisting and obstructing a police officer.

Jackson was scheduled to sentence Rose on Sept. 10, but Rose, who was free on bond, did not appear for the hearing. Jackson issued a bench warrant for Rose's arrest, and Rose was arrested Sept. 21. He remained jailed until Thursday.

Rose's co-defendant, Douglas J. Sparks, also was sentenced Thursday, but for the second time. Jackson in August sentenced Sparks to a year in jail, with 98 days credit, for the same two charges, as well as the resisting and obstructing charge, for which Rose was sentenced.

Douglas J. Sparks

The judge in August granted Sparks' request for day parole for work. Just over a month later, on Sept. 12, a bench warrant was issued after Sparks did not report to work and did not return to jail. Court records show he was arrested Oct. 15.

Sparks on Thursday pleaded guilty to violating his probation, and Jackson sentenced him to a year in jail with 135 days credit.

A few hours after the fire, Richland Township Police Officer Ken Ling arrested Rose on suspicion of breaking a vehicle’s windows along Iva in Richland Township, several miles north of the pole barn fire, said Saginaw County Sheriff William L. Federspiel. Sparks fled from Ling on foot, according to the sheriff. Sparks was arrested on a later date.

Detectives believed about $50,000 worth of items either burned up in the barn or were missing.

Jackson ordered the men to pay $108,870 in restitution “jointly and severally,” which means they must combine, in any manner, to pay.